The New Hampshire Gazette

Divisions of Intellectual Labor.—The time has gone by; at least in the civilized world, when the might of one man's hand could govern, or the abundance of one man's intellect could nourish the strength and thoughts of many. Literature is tending like civil policy to republicanism and distribution which enriches the many with impoverishing the few, but which makes the conferring of acceptable gifts on the former hourly more difficult ; or though the riches of the giver are not diminished, though they are indeed increased, yet the poverty of the receivers is diminished in a more than like proportion.— Their taste is become more fastidious; their curiosity less eager; and if he who would cater for them be deficient in variety and novelty, they discharge the unprofitable servant and take an independent stand upon their own resources. We say their own resources for we mean the resources of the general mind, the many hoarded individual stores which should be general and public and these private accumulations of the general wealth are the only coffers adequate to the supply of an enlightened and still advancing community.